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FOOTE'S WITTICISMS.

A blackleg, famous for `cogging a die,' said that there had been great sport at Newmarket. `What!' said Foote, `I suppose you were detected, and kicked out of the Hazard room.'

F — d, the Clerk of the Arraigns, brought off Lookup when indicted for perjury. Foote, afterwards playing with him at Whist, said, `F — d, you can do anything, after bringing of Lookup. I don't wonder you hold thirteen trumps in your hand. The least he could do was to teach you the "long shuffle'' for your services.'

The Rev. Dr Dodd was a very unlucky gamester, and received a guinea to forfeit twenty if he ever played again above a guinea. This, among gamblers, is termed being tied up. When the doctor was executed for forgery a gentleman observed to Foote — `I suppose the doctor is launched into eternity by this time.' `How so?' said Foote, `he was tied up long ago.'